CUSTOMS TARIFF (PRIMAGE DUTIES).
No. 21 of 1958.
An Act to amend the Customs
Tariff (Primage Duties) 1934–1950,
and for purposes connected therewith.
[Assented to 21st May, 1958.]
[Date
of commencement, 18th June, 1958.]
BE it enacted by the Queen’s Most Excellent Majesty, the Senate, and
the House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Australia, as follows:—
Short title and citation.
1.—(1.) This Act may be cited as the Customs Tariff (Primage Duties) 1958.
(2.) The Customs
Tariff (Primage Duties) 1934–1950
is in this Act referred to as the Principal Act.
(3.) The Principal Act, as amended by this Act, may
be cited as the Customs Tariff (Primage Duties) 1934–1958.
2.After
section five of the Principal Act the following section is inserted:—
Orders by the Minister.
“6.—(1.) In this section, ‘order’ means an order made
by the Minister for the purposes of the Schedule.
“(2.) Orders shall not be deemed to be Statutory
Rules within the meaning of the Rules
Publication Act 1903–1939.
“(3.) The provisions of sections forty-eight and
forty-nine of the Acts Interpretation Act
1901–1957 (other than paragraphs (a)
and (b) of sub-section (1.), and
sub-section (2.), of that first-mentioned section) apply, by force of this
section, to an order in like manner as those provisions apply to a regulation.
“(4.) An order takes effect from the date of
publication in the Gazette or such
later date, if any, as is specified in the order.”.
The Schedule.
3.The
Schedule to the Principal Act is amended by omitting the words “Proclamation
made by the Governor-General acting with the advice of the Federal Executive
Council “(wherever occurring) and inserting in their stead the words “order
made by the Minister”.
Proclamations under Principal Act.
4.